Pop Soloing with Harmonized Turns
Membership Required
Subscribe to a membership plan for full access to this course and learning resources!
Want to give your piano playing a touch of magic? Harmonized turns are one of the most expressive soloing techniques you can learn. Use them to make your improvisations shine, add tasteful fills between phrases, or bring new life to a simple melody. In this course, you’ll build the technique step by step so you can use it comfortably and confidently whenever you play.
You’ll start with a strong foundation: the top pop chord progressions and three favorite left-hand accompaniments that give you a solid groove to improvise over. Next, you’ll learn exactly what harmonized turns are and a simple three-step process for playing them on any melody note. You’ll also explore four techniques for building turns in different positions on the keyboard, the two essential turn rhythms for getting the timing right, and stationary turns, a go-to trick for playing one right-hand turn position over every chord in your left hand.
To help the technique become second nature, you’ll work through three targeted exercises that get harmonized turns into your fingers. Then you’ll put it all together by creating your own improvisation, with five examples of how to use turns in your playing and three line-building tips for crafting great musical lines. By the end of the course, harmonized turns will be a natural part of your musical vocabulary.
Course Objectives
Learning Focus
Course Lessons
Related Courses
Bring lively, energetic movement to your right-hand solos with turns, one of the most useful ornaments in pop piano. You'll learn the essential turn types, the right fingering and the rhythm, then use them to improvise over popular chord progressions.
Add an edgy, gritty bite to your solos by slipping entire chord shapes instead of single notes. Four essential positions let you use this bold sound over almost any pop chord progression.
Play bold, full-sounding solos with chord blocks, the go-to technique for soloing with chords in pop music. You'll learn the right block for every chord in a progression and connect them into a powerful improvisation.
Bring lively, energetic movement to your right-hand solos with turns, one of the most useful ornaments in pop piano. You'll learn the essential turn types, the right fingering and the rhythm, then use them to improvise over popular chord progressions.
Add an edgy, gritty bite to your solos by slipping entire chord shapes instead of single notes. Four essential positions let you use this bold sound over almost any pop chord progression.
Play bold, full-sounding solos with chord blocks, the go-to technique for soloing with chords in pop music. You'll learn the right block for every chord in a progression and connect them into a powerful improvisation.
Join Us
Get instant access to this Course and other member features with a PWJ membership!
Guided Learning Tracks
View guided learning tracks for all music styles and skill levels
Progress Tracking
Complete lessons and courses as you track your learning progress
Downloadable Resources
Download Sheet Music and Backing Tracks
Community Forums
Engage with other PWJ members in our member-only community forums
Become a better piano player today. Try us out completely free for 14 days!
